Vladimir Putin made the remarks on Tuesday during an expanded meeting of the Russian Defense Ministry Board.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the West outplayed Russia in Ukraine after his initial invasion of the country in 2014.
Putin made the remarks on Tuesday during an expanded meeting of the Russian Defense Ministry Board at the National Defense Control Center in Moscow. He said that, after 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine, the West did not implement the second Minsk agreements and immediately started a virtual war there. “In this sense, if I may say so, they outplayed us,” Putin said.
The Minsk agreements were signed in 2014 and 2015 and sought to put an end to the separatist war in eastern Ukraine.
